what an interesting person and a well done capturing of a life. sandra is surprising and very resilient and brave but not a perfect person, and not someone who conforms to a stereotype, that would not be in her nature. it is interesting with biographies to read about a real life person because they do end up feeling a bit unreal and fictional, but it is important to remember that Sandra is a real life person. it is clear that the writer loves Sandra, and there even exists bias in that. there is a feeling of reality and imagined reality, truth and misremeberings, different perspectives and experiences, layered into Sandra's story, naturally because of her memory issues, which makes for an unstable telling of real life, but one that is still shocking, amazing, interesting and so sad. this book, and Sandra's life, has a lot of horrible traumatic moments and therefore readers should read with caution. i think that some of the present day cleaning chapters were repetitive and I found myself wanting to get back to Sandra's life narrative.